{"id":5425,"date":"2014-09-03T13:16:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T17:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2014-09-03T13:16:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T17:16:20","slug":"an-impression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2014\/09\/03\/an-impression\/","title":{"rendered":"An Impression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst trying to sing an out of tune impression of a fabled summer you read or saw somewhere; a stretch of road steaming beneath the burning sun, surrounded by desert; you see only the way ahead but it is blurred beneath the waves of heat; does it matter?; beside you rests the head of a dear friend sleeping like the gravestone of a cherished family member long past; you know\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6ya that one; don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pretend like you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t flattering; vroom, swing me around the tree again and tell me there is no hell cause you heard about it from your older brothers friend; reason to me that all bad things don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exist because it would be uncomfortable for both of us; but you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t anymore; constant reminders never fail to slap us across the face and flash a finger before you even realize why you are so sad; but it is okay, you got bananas and the tombstone on your shoulder; eat that fruit and suppress your hunger cause dinner ain&#8217;t ready yet, wait 30 minutes, maybe an hour, I am not sure; so stuff that face full and read the epitaph of your fabled summer.<\/p>\n<p>Run little rabbit run; there is a hole nearby but you know you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fit; speeding bullets and sprinting boats; chucking meal down to bait you back up out of the back of your throat; don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you know, everyone left an hour ago; if you aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t moving you are taking up space; move out of line and let the blazers echo songs of potential success; wasted potential is more real than that which is fulfilled; you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be alive for long; take yourself to the vet; leather jacket and leather boots; reverberations unrecognizable to the trained ear that earns to rebel against something that it does not know, lucid conviction regarding that which is shrouded.<\/p>\n<p>But you need not fear little rabbit; stretch your neck daily so you can become a giraffe; then reach that high leaf; chew slowly; tastes like shit doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it?; you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know?; I guess that makes sense; the grass always tasted better.<\/p>\n<p>Even Behemoth doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to terrorize this city; overgrown shit; stop whipping it out every single time you see a lovely pair; it is not gonna spew ichor one day you\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6you\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6fuck; hold on, radio signal from up high, rooftop winds, murderous crow on a bass and an owl hooting away; peacock hiding behind sensuous feathers with elegance; no sound but the devil and his retinue partying away; it is a carnival of drums and gun smoking gumshoes reveling in the amount of curious ladies out tonight; Oh! Steamboat Willy! Whistle my worries away! Chief, I want a cheeseburger and two pills.<\/p>\n<p>Wake up now there is a stop nearby, it looks shitty, but I really have to piss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst trying to sing an out of tune impression of a fabled summer you read or saw somewhere; a stretch of road steaming beneath the burning sun, surrounded by desert; you see only the way ahead but it is blurred beneath the waves of heat; does it matter?; beside you rests the head of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5428,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions\/5428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}